How does ozone work in pool water?
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- From www.swimmingpoo... - What does ozone do in swimming pool water? In this video Steve explains what ozone is, and what it is doing in the pool water, specifically, why you will use less chlorine if you add an ozone system to your pool
Great explanation. Concise and straight to the point.
Thank you for creating this channel and making all these clear video !! Awesome work Steve !
Thank you for watching and commenting - Cheers
Havung read all the comments - my advice is use ozone / AOP (even better), but always secondary hygiene needs to operate with a variable speed pump. Program the pump to turn over water volume 4 times a day over at leadt 18 hours...
Very well stated, Steve.
Are you familiar with prozone eco master for pools? I dont have any bubbles and the 1/4" tube doesn't have any flow. The unit is new and been on for 3 days now. Any advice?
If it is a pressure-side delivery setup with an injector this is likely a hydraulic issue. There needs to be lower pressure on the outlet side than on the inlet side in order to create a vacuum. A downstream hinderance to flow is often the culprit if there is no vaccum.
Well explained - AOP... Now that / this is the biz...
What's the benefit of using it vs normal chlorine pool if there is any?
I'm still skeptical. I've seen a lot of hot tubs with ozone systems that get cloudy. (Yes proper amounts of bromine is being used)
Cloudy spa water is frequently due to high pH or alkalinity issues. Due to the small volume of water in a spa, the pH and alkalinity can fluctuate significantly. Ozone isn't a magic pill....it only serves to oxidize organic and inorganic waste and thereby reduces the amount of chlorine being used. If your bromine residual is within range, I'd focus on the pH and alkalinity.
Does ozone system cause chlorine levels to drop in the pool?
I am kinda surprised that two days after doing pool shock I got 0 chlorine.
Overall, ozone makes it easier to maintain a chlorine residual and you should see a significant drop in the amount of chlorine it will take to maintain that residual. What did you use to shock the pool? Are your test kit reagents OK?
my ozone is running before and after the pump runs, how do i get it to run with the pump/self cleaning system?
The ozone unit should be wired to the same power source as your pool pump. Often, simply piggybacking the ozonator leads on top of the pool pump will suffice. Highly recommend that you call your local pool pro if you aren't comfortable dealing with electricity.
How many ppm should we dose the ozone in the pool ?
Ozone is very dangerous and unstable in liquid form. . . pools have an ozone generator that makes a small amount of ozone that gets fed into the pool as your pump is running
There's no definitive answer for this as it is all based on oxidation load. In the pool industry, ozone is sized to generate about 250 milligrams per every 20K gallons of water in a swimming pool scenario but this is a fairly arbitrary amount.
OZone - Makes sense, but why even add Chlorine at that point? Can you run ozone exclusively?
Ozone as primary sanitizer and chlorine, very little, as secondary.
How can you tell when an ozonator needs to be replaced. I recently bought a house with a hot tub and the ozonator mfg date is 12/2003 (17 yrs old at the time of this comment). I recently replaced a faulty check valve that was allowing water to enter the ozonator and kept tripping the breaker. I’m still getting bubbles thru the hot water outlet, but is this just air?
Yes, it's likely that the injector is simply pulling ambient air. If there is a wide difference between free and combined levels of chlorine in the hot tub, the ozone unit is not working and needs to be replaced.
@@kcrsradio great, ty. I’ll test the levels and see what I come up with.
I listen 2 time, maybe i miss that, but can you tell me why cant use only ozone to treat water, if ozone kill all bacteria why use chlorine ?
Simply because ozone is not able to hold a residual in the water. A safe solution needs to be a sanitizer, an oxidizer, an algocide and be able to hold a residual in the water.
@@Swimmingpoolsteve Ok, but if you have big bolier of ozone and water contsatly flow thru boiler, did that will sanitaze and kill bacteria, sorry formbad english
The chemical terminology here is inaccurate. Ex.: ozone does not try to "stabilize" itself by "attaching" to physical debris... etc.
people aren't looking for an IO Chem lesson. This gets the point across.
F.Y.I. Even with 20% off the replacement bulb was 525.00 Canadian May 2023! We are on our third so that would be every two years and only it is on for 4 months a year. Gibsons b.c.
Ozone is both a sanitizer and an oxidizer. It is simply oxygen with an electrical charge put through It. The more oxygen the more ozone. It does not last long in the water. So when the equipment is turned off there is no sanitizing and oxidizing being done. That is one reason chlorine still needs to be used. A tab floater is helpful.
Ozone acts as a sanitizer through oxidation. Ozone is 3 atoms of oxygen, the oxygen we breath is two atoms of oxygen and is much more stable. Due to ozones unstableness it acts as an oxidizing agent , Same as Chlorine is a sanatizer through oxidation. They both are able to accept electons from other molecules in a process called oxidation, causing the molecules to form new bonds. You are correct that once the equipment is turned off, the ozone is so unstable that it disappears quickly.
guys obviously not a chemist